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4:38pm, 31 Oct 2019
On Tuesday, I had some proper geek time with the other cricketers. For some reason, we started talking about our bats. B told us that he regularly planes bits off his bats, and sometimes ruins them as a result. A told of a magical place just off the A14 that *only* sells bats. We reminisced about the bats we used to want to own when we were growing up watching the game (me = Gray Nicholls Dynadrive. I bought one as an adult and it got a nasty split that ended its playing days). I got some good advice on repairing the current crack in the bottom of my bat with runny glue - so fingers crossed I've taken care of that.

Here's a video from the previous week. It's some side-on footage of me bowling. I repeat the third ball, and slow it down, as I felt that it was a good one.

https://youtu.be/U0vjESPqSLg


Last week's bowling wasn't great overall - but on Tuesday I felt like I got some good rip. I've tried to remove as many variables as I can by always starting my run up at the same point, and focusing on my spinning finger. Shoulder still feels it's letting me down occasionally. Batting went ok - disappointed not to get a more exciting bruise after being hit on the full just above my right nipple. My fault for trying to charge the bowler :-)

Still reading? Look closely: fetcheveryone.com/viewracedetails.php?id=3153169 :-) I haven't entered many races post-Fexit, because I've not been in PB-shape, and it feels a bit of a waste to shell out just to trot round. But this is undoubtedly a challenge, and would certainly keep me busy for the next six months. #toot #casnewydd
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Comments

  • You absolutely should enter because life is precious and you’re a Jedi. greensaber
    runnerbean
    4:48pm, 31st Oct 2019
  • Don't you mean fetcheveryone.com/viewracedetails.php?id=3153169 (2020 vs 2019)
    chunkywizard
    4:49pm, 31st Oct 2019
  • Ta CW. Bows to Beany.
    fetcheveryone
    4:50pm, 31st Oct 2019
  • Sorry, I lost it at runny glue in bottom crack. Fnar. luck for the mara!
    Sigh
    5:01pm, 31st Oct 2019
  • A bit more body action, what do you make of the little skip? I didn't notice that before.
    Ocelot Spleens
    5:01pm, 31st Oct 2019
  • What do I make of it? :-) I dunno, it's just something I do.

    Sigh - fnar :-)
    fetcheveryone
    5:09pm, 31st Oct 2019
  • yes, I dare say if I ever videoed my action it would have all sorts of similar steps up to the point of delivery, to my mind it makes it look like bowl off of one stride. If it wasn't there, you'd possibly get through the crease quicker, get your body into it a little more and get a bit more work on the ball.
    Ocelot Spleens
    5:15pm, 31st Oct 2019
  • If it comes out of my hand ok, there's no shortage of spin. Line and length is the main issue right now - although I should repeat the exercise I did a couple of months ago (see fetcheveryone.com/blog/3/2019/9#blog397636 for details), and try to pin it down. I would hope it's a bit better :-)
    fetcheveryone
    5:19pm, 31st Oct 2019
  • The Duncan Fearnley Magnum was the bat to have when I was in primary school. I had a DF, but it wasn’t a Magnum. (With an all time high score of 25* I somehow doubt the bat was the problem...)
    Pothunter
    8:10pm, 31st Oct 2019
  • I always wanted to be gallus enough to wield a Stuart Surridge Jumbo.
    Angus Clydesdale
    12:12am, 1st Nov 2019
  • Just followed your race linkie. You’re seriously telling us you want to run from Newport to Magor Services and back, via Llanwern?!! It might have changed since I worked around there in the mid-90s.... but I’d be surprised! ;)
    Angus Clydesdale
    12:27am, 1st Nov 2019
  • Interesting route for the Marathon, do you get a necklace for finishing?
    Chrisity
    3:32pm, 1st Nov 2019
  • A couple of bowling observations; you're bowling from the stumps rather than the popping crease (though I don't know how accurately the stumps have been placed). It may be worth thinking about driving your right hip through a bit more, it's tending to follow delivery rather than be part of the delivery action. As you're getting good spin already, this might help the tempo - the effect of actually 'bowling' as opposed to just putting the ball down there - a bit more venom on it! Line and length is down to repetition; put the hours in and it will improve.
    Goofee
    6:43am, 3rd Nov 2019


Books Part 2

12:41pm, 29 Oct 2019
Thanks for all your comments on yesterday's blog. I wasn't joking - that first edition of the page was literally thrown together in about 45 minutes.

I've had a bit more time to muck about now, so I've:

1) added a bunch of Amazon links (I will work through the rest) and images.
2) removed some duplicates and corrected some titles and author names. I've also made the code a bit smarter - it won't allow exact duplicates.
3) given you the option to rate and review. If you'd already upvoted a book, it's assumed that you've given it five stars - but just delete your review, and stick in whatever you think. And you can do a 200 character review of the book too. Have fun :-)

Please do go back for another look, and add your reviews and star ratings:

fetcheveryone.com/books.php

I haven't gone near any search/filter/tagging stuff yet - but I expect I'll do something like that soon.
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Comments

  • Wow, we're a positive bunch aren't we? Nearly every book a 5* masterpiece!!
    larkim
    12:47pm, 29th Oct 2019
  • Added half a dozen reviews (including down grading the 5* !) You're flippin Agile by the way Fetch. How improved is that page after a couple of hours! :-) G
    HappyG(rrr)
    1:09pm, 29th Oct 2019
  • Will get on to this :)
    Velociraptor
    2:03pm, 29th Oct 2019
  • We have some 200 film reviews in the Hello to Jason Isaacs thread, if you want to import them into this rather fantastic format and then link to the Amazon DVD and/or Amazon Prime Movies buyable versions? (as this was a the original money spinning premise)?

    Then you've got kit: reviews never really got off the ground there, but there are some in there.

    Ultra training threads with nutrition (and more kit!)

    Bike guys must have kit, some of which is avail on Amazon.

    You really could monetise a lot of the site, at no detriment to Fetch users or impartiality. Basically you just chase along behind them, whenever something is recommended or mentioned and put in a wee link to Amazon via your affiliate link. Done! :-) G
    HappyG(rrr)
    2:14pm, 29th Oct 2019
  • I had no idea so many books about running existed!
    BaronessBL
    11:53am, 30th Oct 2019
  • Wow, also theres my Christmas list sorted.
    mr d
    8:23pm, 30th Oct 2019


Books :-)

5:26pm, 28 Oct 2019
I've thrown together a very quick page that will hopefully allow us to capture all the best books for runners, bikers, swimmers, walkers etc. In the spirit of total honesty, my plan is to see if I can turn it into a little money spinner, by adding Fetch-specific Amazon links. But it could also be genuinely useful - we could add little reviews etc.

Please add all the books that you like, and vote yes for the ones that you think are great. I will (probably tomorrow now) go through and add a bunch of Amazon links, and work out some way of presenting the jazziest ones.

fetcheveryone.com/books.php

Thanks :-)
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Comments

  • I’ve just added a book by Paul Hobrough but got the title slightly wrong. It should be Running Free Of Injuries (not Injury)
    Eynsham Red
    5:57pm, 28th Oct 2019
  • Chucked in a couple of obvious suspects :)
    I suppose the best option would be to have links to everything, even the books that are only fit to use as kindling.
    Velociraptor
    6:35pm, 28th Oct 2019
  • Omg I could be here all night adding these
    runnerbean
    6:46pm, 28th Oct 2019
  • Great idea! Some suggestions: the list of titles/authors needs to be clickable so you can search alphabetically, the option to add a new title should allow a check (like the races feature) to see if it's already listed; plus, I just added a book and it appeared with a vote, I wasn't sure if it was me so I clicked again and it now has 2 votes which might both be me (Runner by Lizzie Hawker).
    Sigh
    6:56pm, 28th Oct 2019
  • I would like the option to downvote books that I think are shite, but accept that this would probably not be a helpful feature.
    Velociraptor
    6:58pm, 28th Oct 2019
  • Could you add a section for reviews? (A bit like the parkrun reviews)
    njosmith
    7:35pm, 28th Oct 2019
  • Just cross added Lizzie Hawkers book, went down the list it wasn't on, added it, now there are three. Soz.
    mr d
    8:20pm, 28th Oct 2019
  • I would also like to downvote books, and add review/comments. Some are good if you love the subject, but you have to be fascinated as the writing is.... sub par
    boyband6666
    9:20pm, 28th Oct 2019
  • I take it you’re planning to go in and tidy this up? 3 x a book called Runner, Binks' book is in twice and Friel's book Fast After 50 has been poorly titled!
    Angus Clydesdale
    12:03am, 29th Oct 2019
  • And please, if you introduce a voting system, make it Aye or No. Don’t give people the modern cop-out of "Meh" (whatever that means). They either make a decision or move on and say nothing.
    Angus Clydesdale
    12:06am, 29th Oct 2019
  • And I agree with all Sigh's suggestions about filtering etc. Otherwise the list will become terribly unwieldy really quickly.
    Angus Clydesdale
    12:15am, 29th Oct 2019
  • It would be useful if they could be categorised ( say : Running, cycling, swimming, nutrition, conditioning, etc ), the only problem would be a lot of these books cover multiple areas ( ie a mainly running book but with a chapter on nutrition, conditioning, etc )
    K5 Gus
    7:49am, 29th Oct 2019
  • Load of duplicates in there already, needing tidying up. I've voted for a few. You'll want us to put one line reviews, I'd suggest?
    HappyG(rrr)
    8:08am, 29th Oct 2019
  • And surely the best review system is stars 1 to 5, with the ability to go and see the 1 star reviews and judge for yourself whether the reviewer is a total c*ckwomble?! :-O "I couldn't believe the text of the book wasn't in bright red Comic Sans font. I only ever give a 1 star review if the font is wrong." etc. :-) G
    HappyG(rrr)
    10:00am, 29th Oct 2019


42

10:48am, 24 Oct 2019
Aside from being the age that I stopped remembering how old I am without stopping to think about it, it's also Douglas Adams' famous answer to the ultimate question of life, the universe and everything.

But more importantly, this Monday will be episode 42 of the Fetcheveryone Weekly Podcast :-) I thought (sorry Katie, but it's only just come into my head) that we could take advantage of the tenuous Hitchhikers link, and try to do a Q&A this week.

You can either leave a question for me or Katie in the blog comments below, or you can record a voice clip on your phone and email it to podcast@fetcheveryone.com - if you do that, please include your Fetch name in the audio e.g. "Hello it's Speedy Bob, and here's my question".

This might work, or might not :-)

EDIT: What do you mean, you don't listen to the podcast? Go here: fetcheveryone.com/podcast
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Comments

  • 42, the answer! I wanted to do my marathon PB at 42 but forgot to put in the VLM entry, so it will forever be at 42. Oh well. Cool, a Q&A. In rhyming verse? In Welsh? In the bath? :-) G
    HappyG(rrr)
    10:56am, 24th Oct 2019
  • Those aren't real questions :-P
    fetcheveryone
    10:59am, 24th Oct 2019
  • What are you most proud of about the site?
    LindsD
    11:05am, 24th Oct 2019
  • Bearing in mind your cricketing exploits, I would have thought the Wikkit Gate may have featured:

    hitchhikersguidetoearth.fandom.com

    Will ponder questions I could ask :-)
    Sigh
    11:18am, 24th Oct 2019
  • Are you the Jedi Master?
    snayak
    12:00pm, 24th Oct 2019
  • This is going well :-)
    fetcheveryone
    12:45pm, 24th Oct 2019
  • Are you and Katie managing to earn a living from the site?
    colindglen
    1:56pm, 24th Oct 2019
  • Do you listen to music while you work, if so what's on your listening list?
    mulbs
    2:52pm, 24th Oct 2019
  • Serious question your honour. I'm referring to the badge which has a rarity index of 1. I assume you are the owner.
    snayak
    3:13pm, 24th Oct 2019
  • Have you booked your tickets for Star Wars yet ?
    runnerbean
    3:56pm, 24th Oct 2019
  • How did you meet?
    LindsD
    4:18pm, 24th Oct 2019
  • Not a question but a quick thank you for the brilliant site 👍🏻
    Derby Tup
    4:57pm, 24th Oct 2019
  • If a man is speaking in the middle of a forest and there is no woman around to hear him - Is he still wrong?
    CogNoscensme AHA
    5:40pm, 24th Oct 2019
  • Boring question from me (sorry): roughly how does your time get split in an average week/month between fixing bugs, adding new features, and chasing sponsors/money?
    PS the site is amazing, thank you, keep up the good work :)
    Jenelopy
    6:57pm, 24th Oct 2019
  • I am sure that there must be many examples, but are you able to come up with a top 5 list of moments that have made you feel particularly proud of the community that you have created here?
    HowFar?
    7:22pm, 24th Oct 2019
  • My question. How many UK un-explored conquercise zones are left? and where are they?
    PeteFastFeet
    7:31pm, 24th Oct 2019
  • Which fetches do you miss the most from when it was all fields around here? Which generation of fetch are we in now, or perhaps we can talk of eras and eons. Which game are you most pleased with?

    What race would you recommend from peering at this site for years? I fancy Bolder Boulder. When my running comes back obvs.
    Ocelot Spleens
    7:59pm, 24th Oct 2019
  • Why?
    Jigs
    9:24pm, 24th Oct 2019
  • If Fetcheveryone hadn't taken off, what do you think that you would be doing now?
    Chrisity
    9:45pm, 24th Oct 2019
  • Have you got your Christmas tree up yet? :-)
    LipGloss
    11:04pm, 24th Oct 2019
  • Do you have other sites you maintain (would you have time?), and what happened to your other projects, are they bubbling away in the background?
    Diogenes
    7:50am, 25th Oct 2019
  • Did you ever write that children’s book?
    HowFar?
    5:49pm, 25th Oct 2019
  • What’s the worst poetry you’ve ever read or had inflicted on you?
    Nightjar
    8:03am, 27th Oct 2019


Training tags Part 2

4:39pm, 22 Oct 2019
I've carried on working with the tagging system since my blog earlier today. Here are some things for you to look out for:

1) Under 'Filters' on your training log, you should now see 'Tagged' as an option. This dropdown contains every tag you've ever applied to your training log. Choose one, and it will filter the list to show only those entries that match. NB the other filters and the date range will still apply - so you might need to broaden the search a little.

2) The tags on each row of your training log link into the filtering scheme. Click one, and it will just filter your list on that tag.

3) Likewise, when you look at an individual training entry in detail, and click the tag, it will take you back to the log, but filtered for that tag.

4) There's a page where you can manage all your training tags. You can find it on the training log under 'Settings'. It takes you here: fetcheveryone.com/training-tag.php It produces a tag cloud - click a tag, and you have the option to rename it. I've found lots of cases where I've used very similar tags e.g. 'loo' and 'toilet'. If you adjust the name of one to match the other, all associated training entries get united too. I enjoyed tidying up my list :-) Still a bit of a way to go. Here's my tag cloud:

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Comments

  • Were they automatic until about Oct 2017? Because I only have tags up to that date. I don't add them manually. Hmm. *strokes chin* :-) G
    HappyG(rrr)
    4:58pm, 22nd Oct 2019
  • They weren’t automatic HappyG. When I first introduced tagging, a few people said “I *would* use it, but none of my past training has any tags”. So I gave everyone a head start.
    fetcheveryone
    5:21pm, 22nd Oct 2019
  • I looked at my cloud today, hilarious :)
    fleecy
    6:30pm, 22nd Oct 2019
  • Fab-u-lous :-)
    Seratonin
    7:46pm, 22nd Oct 2019
  • star
    Rosehip
    8:17pm, 22nd Oct 2019
  • I’m probably being a numpty, but I can’t see how to add a tag to a training entry.
    Fragile Do Not Bend
    9:21pm, 22nd Oct 2019
  • It’s ok, I found it on the view page, I was expecting it on the edit page.
    Fragile Do Not Bend
    9:24pm, 22nd Oct 2019
  • Great improvement. Now to use tags more often.😉
    JCB
    10:16pm, 22nd Oct 2019
  • Try holding your phone in landscape Trin. Same trick applies to lots of pages. Any better?
    fetcheveryone
    12:21pm, 23rd Oct 2019
  • What phone have you got?
    fetcheveryone
    12:45pm, 23rd Oct 2019
  • It comes down to the screen width. I've just adjusted it so that it will include those columns for screens that are 568 pixels wide. Refresh, and see if that returns your columns in landscape. Ta.
    fetcheveryone
    1:41pm, 23rd Oct 2019
  • ^568px = the width of an iPhone 5 in landscape.
    fetcheveryone
    1:41pm, 23rd Oct 2019


Training tags

12:45pm, 22 Oct 2019
On your training log, if you look at the 'Entries' tab (which gives you a list), there's a little dropdown box. It contains stuff like 'Predictions', 'Conditions', 'Speedmarks' etc. I've added a new option, called 'Tags'. Here's a quick link to get you there:

fetcheveryone.com/training.php?view=tags

For a long while, it's been possible to tag individual training entries. And when you click that tag, it shows you all the other training entries that also use it. But unless you knew a specific day when you used a particular tag, it wasn't straightforward to find it again.

So if you choose 'Tags' from the dropdown, it'll show all the tags against all the training entries within range:



and you can also quickly add them. As per my 18th Oct blog ("Let's Jazzercise"), tags allow you to categorise your runs in multiple ways (e.g. a parkrun can also be a threshold run, and it can also be 'rainy' and 'cold' at the same time), but also in any way that you choose (so if you like to call them tempo runs instead of threshold runs, or if you like to call them "quicklegs" or "breathless" or whatever, you can do that).

Sub-categorising your run as "long", "recovery" etc by choosing from the category dropdown will eventually become "tagging the run as long, recovery etc"; and those limited surface and weather options become whatever you want them to be.

See how you get on with that :-)
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Comments

  • As an aside to that nice change detailed, would it not make more sense to have the dropdown above the column it relates to, ie the rightmost column, rather than next to the Date heading in column 1 ?
    K5 Gus
    12:51pm, 22nd Oct 2019
  • Fine if there's one column, but some of them have ten.
    fetcheveryone
    12:54pm, 22nd Oct 2019
  • Ahh, good point !
    Would a reasonably logical place would be in the tab itself, ie after the heading Entries ? There's only the 5 tabs, so plenty screen space to increase the width of the first tab, but may look a bit weird............. obviously not a big issue, just think it looks a bit odd where it is.
    K5 Gus
    1:26pm, 22nd Oct 2019
  • Would it be possible to just add the tags to the Filter section, that way all the other detail would be preserved, rather than the summary you get when selecting a tag?
    flanker
    1:31pm, 22nd Oct 2019
  • @Gus - I'll have a think about that. I do agree that it looks a bit out of place currently.

    @flanker - that's exactly the plan.
    fetcheveryone
    1:33pm, 22nd Oct 2019
  • :-)
    flanker
    1:35pm, 22nd Oct 2019
  • Good work! That's what I needed so I can tag my "commute carrying weight LSR" properly!
    3M
    1:36pm, 22nd Oct 2019
  • *like* - just need to use them consistently now :)
    Rosehip
    2:24pm, 22nd Oct 2019
  • Very good!
    JCB
    2:33pm, 22nd Oct 2019
  • Am i doing something wrong as cant now see all my HR data in the entries? I always use Beats Per Mile.
    Daz Love
    7:25pm, 22nd Oct 2019
  • Look for the drop down where you choose the columns, at the top left of the table. It will probably be on ‘Tags’ right now.
    fetcheveryone
    7:56pm, 22nd Oct 2019
  • I first looked at this on my phone. The drop down box only appears in landscape orientation (which I suppose is deliberate) but even in landscape mode it’s pointless it being there as the screen isn’t wide enough for the other fields.
    Fragile Do Not Bend
    9:15pm, 22nd Oct 2019
  • Thanks . Found it 😛
    Daz Love
    8:37pm, 23rd Oct 2019


Let's Jazzercise

12:26pm, 18 Oct 2019
There are 208 different categories in our database - from 'Running - General' through to the most recent addition of 'Cross Training - Jazzercise'. They've all been requested by various Fetchies over the years, and they're all awesome ways to spend your time I'm sure.

What you might not know, is that next to the category picker for adding training entries, there's an 'Edit your category list' link.

Until yesterday, the editing worked by maintaining a list of categories you'd excluded. I've switched it round so that it instead stores the ones you've included.

This might seem like unnecessary tinkering, especially if you saw the bug this morning, where folks had no categories showing. But there were several popular feature requests that drove it.

Feature 264 asks for the ability to put favourite categories at the top of the list. I can see how this would be necessary with 208 categories - less so with, say, 10 categories. However, storing an order for *included* categories whilst simultaneously storing *excluded* categories doesn't make any sense. Far neater to store an ordered list of included categories.

Feature 184 asks for the ability to put categories in alphabetic order. See above, really. Not quite there with reordering, but let's see if this helps.

Feature 384 is another one that makes me wonder if the folks who voted for it are aware there's an opportunity to edit the list :-)

And (not covered by any feature), the fact that we were store excluded categories meant that any time I added a new category, it would by definition be added to your list of options.

If you've:

(a) never filtered out your unwanted categories before, or
(b) had more than 50 categories on your list,

the server will build you a new list, based on the categories you've already used in your training log, and start you off with those. If you genuinely do more than 50 different training activities, it should pick this up - and you're always welcome to click the 'Edit your category list' link (which should be appearing next to the category picker every place you see it) to add back any that you just like to have listed ;-)

If you're not asleep yet, I'd like to point out the tagging system. The best example of the usefulness of this is in the categories. A long time ago, I was asked to add 'Running - parkrun' as a category. I did, although I wasn't especially keen. For me, 'parkrun' can be a half hour chat with Katie, or it can be a tempo run, or a run-walk, or even (Heavens to Murgatroyd) a race ;-) And yet, it's not wrong to call it 'parkrun' either.

The tagging system allows you to categorise a training entry in multiple ways e.g. run, tempo, parkrun, raining, calf, sad. And if you click one of these tags, you get to see all the other training entries that have been tagged in the same way. It's by no means a perfect system (there are some good feature requests that point the way forward esp. #313, #305), and longer term, I'd like to roll it into a neater ball that removed the need for our rigid category structure.

#fetchfam

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Comments

  • I thought Jazzercise was an Archers reference
    Darlo
    12:30pm, 18th Oct 2019
  • What would be good is if there was somewhere we could see which of our chosen categories we used and which ones we don't, so we can use that information to prune the list a bit more.
    Sigh
    12:32pm, 18th Oct 2019
  • Nice. Allowing for a handful of "custom" training types would be good too, say 5 for each activity type (ideally with an option to rename them at the front end) so that ones that I might like but might be irrelevant to others (e.g. DNF, Run with kids, etc) can be easily added without a change request. I can't remember if I logged that as a suggestion or not.
    larkim
    12:32pm, 18th Oct 2019
  • You could put those in as tags, larkim.
    fetcheveryone
    12:33pm, 18th Oct 2019
  • Fmail coming your way Sigh - I've deleted your category preferences, so it will rebuild your list based on what you use.
    fetcheveryone
    12:39pm, 18th Oct 2019
  • Thanks!
    Sigh
    12:42pm, 18th Oct 2019
  • Good call about the tags.
    LindsD
    12:45pm, 18th Oct 2019
  • I'm off to filter! I quite liked it when you auto applied tags based on the Notes added in the description (because I always write notes). By the way, instead of saying "the server does..." could we give your lovely code and its hardware a name? The Fetchinator or FetchBot or The Fetchenatron or something? Competition? Poll?! Good work. You've achieved more than I have this week! :-) G
    HappyG(rrr)
    1:25pm, 18th Oct 2019
  • Sounds good. I’ve always thought ‘I should use the tags more’ but then never CBA. I do weird training like Rebounding and trampoline stuff so never think it’s worth sending feedback to ask for something so unusual :)
    fleecy
    2:00pm, 18th Oct 2019
  • great stuff, keep it up!
    chunkywizard
    2:26pm, 18th Oct 2019
  • I did not know that you could edit the list so I love it :-)
    Elsie Too
    3:29pm, 18th Oct 2019
  • I am trying to vote a bit more on feature requests and often think 'there is a way of doing this already' - and choose 'meh' :)
    Autumnleaves
    3:44pm, 18th Oct 2019
  • I would use the tags more if I could view the entries tagged in the same format as in the log (ie look at HR, pace etc). To me, the tags are useless unless I can view the same info. Love the self pruning training types. I have edited mine, but not by enough (just in case, you know).
    TeeBee
    4:10pm, 18th Oct 2019
  • Considering the stick you gave me for requesting 'watersports' ;)
    GregP
    6:44pm, 18th Oct 2019
  • I ,like this. It used to annoy me that my filtered ,list kept growing when you added new choices
    Bazoaxe
    7:59pm, 18th Oct 2019
  • Oh! Lovely. Good solution. Thank you, Fetch.
    Bright Strider
    12:43pm, 19th Oct 2019
  • love this update Lord Fetch, I panicked a little when I 1st noticed a change ti the training log thinking something was wrong BUT I adore this new set up well done :-)
    Wicked D
    1:54pm, 19th Oct 2019
  • What Brighters-Striders said. Well done that Uberfetchie.
    GregP
    2:00pm, 19th Oct 2019
  • Completely agree with this. The list had grown way to big for exclude to work: to me at least it seemed like “want to categorise your runs?”, “yes”, “well first spend half an hour going ‘wth?’ -> delete and then you can do it” :-)

    And I agree about new ones appearing.

    Interesting about tags as well. I’ll play with that now!
    roberton
    9:42pm, 19th Oct 2019


My precious

10:50am, 17 Oct 2019
About a week ago, I added a new marker to Fetchpoint. I spawned one at random in my mile circle, and waited a bit to see what would happen. I saw (with pangs of jealousy) that my precious had been moved from its original spot before I had a chance to get my hands on it. Filthy runners and walkers had taken it away in their pocketses.

This morning I set off to make sure I got my hands on it. There was a certain thrill as I ran past the car park opposite Bedford Council's HQ; and then another runner came round the corner, and I nearly stoved his head in to make sure he didn't log his run before me. Wicked, tricksy runner!

My plan was to take it just a little bit closer to Mordor (if you find my precious, it will find the closest point on your run to Mordor and drop it there). In man's tongue, my plan was to leave it on the Kempston Road so that a Dark Rider might cycle it further along (I saw flowerses). But it's got lodged on a little cut-through where I scuttled back to the river to check my reflection.

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Comments

  • Closer to Morden you say?
    McGoohan
    10:54am, 17th Oct 2019
  • Any chance of scattering the other 19 rings around the map so we can all have an opportunity to acquire power and riches?

    Three Rings for the Elven-kings under the sky,
    Seven for the Dwarf-lords in their halls of stone,
    Nine for Mortal Men doomed to die.
    ♪♫ Synge ♪♫
    11:01am, 17th Oct 2019
  • *dusts off 70s Shadowfax poster*
    swittle
    11:09am, 17th Oct 2019
  • I think much of the detail of this blog has been lost on me but it did make me revisit my Fetchpoint account/map to see if there's one near me!
    BaronessBL
    11:25am, 17th Oct 2019
  • I have no idea what this means
    minardi
    1:09pm, 17th Oct 2019
  • Can we all have our own ring?
    Ocelot Spleens
    2:01pm, 17th Oct 2019
  • I understand now. I left it on the bridge by the carpark on monday.
    Silvershadow
    2:02pm, 17th Oct 2019
  • I think you have been listening to too much of your own podcasts sir.
    BigChiefRunningBore
    3:56pm, 17th Oct 2019
  • I haven't got a clue what you're on about here.
    alpenrose
    5:35pm, 17th Oct 2019
  • Looking at the comments so far, this looks a bit of a man thing.
    alpenrose
    5:36pm, 17th Oct 2019
  • :-0
    fetcheveryone
    5:39pm, 17th Oct 2019
  • Unfortunately I’m on the Dagobah System for a while but use the Force Fetch ....
    runnerbean
    5:49pm, 17th Oct 2019
  • When it does eventually get to Mordor, I guess it needs to be taken in by a cyclist.
    Fragile Do Not Bend
    5:56pm, 17th Oct 2019
  • Or by a swimmer, FDNB
    Heinzster
    8:49pm, 17th Oct 2019
  • Brilliant idea and made me laugh too: ta.
    ZenTaoPlurp
    11:49am, 18th Oct 2019


Cricket Week 4: Footage :-)

2:08pm, 16 Oct 2019
Here's me bowling a few balls so you can roast my action; then if you're a real sucker for punishment, there's about 11 minutes of me batting:

https://youtu.be/skvNlsLCdIY


I don't feel like the bowling went especially well yesterday, but my penultimate ball in the bowling part of the clip felt like a nice one, and landed in the right place.

Bit disappointed with the quality of the GoPro footage - but it is cropped from the original, so maybe that's why it's a bit fuzzy. I will see if I can do some side-on footage next week and get the camera a bit closer. I think the GoPro would survive a hit, but the tripod probably not.

Seven players last night, including two new ones and a couple returning; so we're building slowly. And some of the guys that have turned up regularly have chucked a few extra quid in, so we're just about covering costs. They're a nice bunch :-)
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Comments

  • "Roast my action" sounds like a late night show on Channel 5.
    Sigh
    3:10pm, 16th Oct 2019
  • I liked the ante-penultimate ball, where you watch it sail back over your head (or appear to) :-)
    Decent action though, young man. What happens if you bowl a little flatter and faster? Do you lose the turn?
    paul the builder
    3:14pm, 16th Oct 2019
  • I wasn't getting much turn last night - I think when my head is thinking about leg spinners, the wrist comes round a bit, and I get looping topspinners. When I just try to push it through a bit flatter with a neutral wrist, and get it right, they tend to spin a lot. I will see if I can focus on that next week.
    fetcheveryone
    3:21pm, 16th Oct 2019
  • @Sigh :-) :-) :-)
    fetcheveryone
    3:21pm, 16th Oct 2019
  • Gooch like batting stance :-)
    Bazoaxe
    8:11pm, 16th Oct 2019
  • They're not bad. I agree the last one was the best, I'd agree with the need to be a tad flatter in general, I also think you don't use your body well, so you might want to to get your left shoulder around a little more so you get your body into it.

    It's funny that everyone takes a turn bowling, we used to bowl overs...or at least 3 or 4 balls a turn....
    Ocelot Spleens
    8:51pm, 16th Oct 2019


Forum Training Threads

2:34pm, 14 Oct 2019
Every week on the podcast, I highlight a thread that has caught my eye. But this week, I had a request from Clare1976 to give a little nudge to a whole set of threads. And given that lots of you will be firming up your spring marathon plans this month, this is very timely.

Here are the ones I've found:

Ultra Running
Ultra Beginners: fetcheveryone.com/viewtopic.php?id=55137
Ultra: fetcheveryone.com/viewtopic.php?id=10360

Marathon Threads
Sub 5.00: fetcheveryone.com/viewtopic.php?id=60649
Sub 4.30: fetcheveryone.com/viewtopic.php?id=56326
Sub 4.00: fetcheveryone.com/viewtopic.php?id=31521
Sub 3.45: fetcheveryone.com/viewtopic.php?id=9521
Sub 3.30: fetcheveryone.com/viewtopic.php?id=3235
Sub 3.15: fetcheveryone.com/viewtopic.php?id=3267
Sub 3.00: fetcheveryone.com/viewtopic.php?id=17719
Sub 2.45: fetcheveryone.com/viewtopic.php?id=3229
Half to Mara: fetcheveryone.com/viewtopic.php?id=60544

Half Marathon Threads
Sub 2.25: fetcheveryone.com/viewtopic.php?id=53661
Sub 2.00: fetcheveryone.com/viewtopic.php?id=47233
Sub 1.40: fetcheveryone.com/viewtopic.php?id=8471
Sub 1.30: fetcheveryone.com/viewtopic.php?id=37225
Sub 1.25: fetcheveryone.com/viewtopic.php?id=48201
Sub 1.20: fetcheveryone.com/viewtopic.php?id=51584

10k Threads
Sub 60: fetcheveryone.com/viewtopic.php?id=50375
Sub 50: fetcheveryone.com/viewtopic.php?id=43288
Sub 45: fetcheveryone.com/viewtopic.php?id=44514
Sub 40: fetcheveryone.com/viewtopic.php?id=24494

5k Threads
Sub 30: fetcheveryone.com/viewtopic.php?id=58518
20 to 25: fetcheveryone.com/viewtopic.php?id=15471
Sub 20: fetcheveryone.com/viewtopic.php?id=8810
Sub 19: fetcheveryone.com/viewtopic.php?id=51829
Sub 18: fetcheveryone.com/viewtopic.php?id=51090

Beginner Threads
C25K: fetcheveryone.com/viewtopic.php?id=60875

Methodologies
P&D: fetcheveryone.com/viewtopic.php?id=11687
Hadd: fetcheveryone.com/viewtopic.php?id=31192
Furman: fetcheveryone.com/viewtopic.php?id=39828

It'd be really nice to see these threads get some support - some of them have been around for years and years, and they've provided help to lots of people. If you've got a time target, please get stuck in. If I've missed any existing threads let me know; if you would like to create a thread to fill a gap, go for it; and if a thread admin seems to have gone AWOL, send me some feedback. I'm aiming to send an email out to all Fetch users next week to publicise these threads, so if all of these threads were alive and kicking when any new users come to call, that'd be amazing. Ta :-)
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Comments

  • It would also be good if we had some "mere mortal" marathon time target threads too. If the admins for sub-3:45 and/or 4hrs are MIA I'd be happy to take responsibility for those.
    Velociraptor
    2:38pm, 14th Oct 2019
  • V'rap - I've given you admin rights for the 4hr thread; the owner of the 3:45 thread looks to be around quite recently.
    fetcheveryone
    2:42pm, 14th Oct 2019
  • I've also found a 4:30 marathon thread
    fetcheveryone
    2:43pm, 14th Oct 2019
  • And a sub-5.
    fetcheveryone
    2:44pm, 14th Oct 2019
  • Am I right in thinking the id of those threads indicates their respective ages? Interesting that the 2:45, 3:15 and 3:30 mara threads seem to be a similar age, but the sub 3 is a lot more recent.
    larkim
    2:49pm, 14th Oct 2019
  • I think there was a sub 60-10K thread somewhere ? , might even have been a sub 30 5k and if not there should be...
    Rosehip
    2:49pm, 14th Oct 2019
  • I've just woken up the 4:30 mara thread. Is the admin still around for that one ?
    DocM
    2:50pm, 14th Oct 2019
  • Doc - haven't seen her post in a while - would you like to take it on?
    fetcheveryone
    2:52pm, 14th Oct 2019
  • Excellent :)
    Velociraptor
    2:56pm, 14th Oct 2019
  • Dug out the 50 and 60 minute 10k threads...
    fetcheveryone
    2:59pm, 14th Oct 2019
  • And a sub-45 10k
    fetcheveryone
    3:03pm, 14th Oct 2019
  • And sub-30 5k
    fetcheveryone
    3:03pm, 14th Oct 2019
  • I think Ogee was Mr Admin for the Ultra thread but I'm not sure he's around so much anymore...
    McGoohan
    3:04pm, 14th Oct 2019
  • Anyone willing to take it on, McG? ;-)
    fetcheveryone
    3:06pm, 14th Oct 2019
  • Not me, guv. One ultra every two or three years is my quota ;-)
    McGoohan
    3:07pm, 14th Oct 2019
  • great idea, thanks for posting. I'm admin on the sub 40 10K I believe so head on over if that's your target.
    chunkywizard
    3:16pm, 14th Oct 2019
  • I wonder whether there might also be scope for a "daily training" thread like the one that was on the old RW forums, where people noted what they had done/were doing that day and the rationale for it.
    Velociraptor
    3:23pm, 14th Oct 2019
  • A few to add to your list:-
    Sub 20 5k fetcheveryone.com/viewtopic.php?id=8810
    Sub 19 5k fetcheveryone.com/viewtopic.php?id=51829
    And there are actually two 40min 10k threads, but the one not listed fetcheveryone.com/viewtopic.php?id=49149 hasn't had a post in over 5-years
    Nelly
    3:23pm, 14th Oct 2019
  • And Sub 80min HM fetcheveryone.com/viewtopic.php?id=51584
    Nelly
    3:25pm, 14th Oct 2019
  • Sub 1:40 HM fetcheveryone.com/viewtopic.php?id=8471
    Nelly
    3:27pm, 14th Oct 2019
  • Good finds, thanks Nelly.

    V'rap - let me see if I can make that happen.
    fetcheveryone
    3:31pm, 14th Oct 2019
  • Thanks Fetch, great to have a comprehensive and inclusive list :-) Now to try and open the sub-40 10k thread which suddenly according to my watch list now has 1587 new posts today!!!!
    clare1976
    3:34pm, 14th Oct 2019
  • Whoops. I pushed all the people from the "5 years since the last post" sub-40 thread onto the more recent one. I'd forgive you if you didn't read them all :-)
    fetcheveryone
    3:38pm, 14th Oct 2019
  • @fetch. ...I'd be happy to
    DocM
    3:47pm, 14th Oct 2019
  • Is there a way for advice to be filtered from the threads so that newcomers to the threads don't have to trawl through the whole thing to find useful tips on training that has worked for other people. I don't expect that to be done retrospectively, but if there was a way for someone on each thread to take the information from a particular post and put it in a separate spot, it might be useful.
    HowFar?
    3:48pm, 14th Oct 2019
  • Vrap the how was you run thread works a bit like a daily training thread and is underused
    DocM
    3:48pm, 14th Oct 2019
  • The daily training thread was a new thread every day, Doc. People raced to get in first each day with a song lyric as the thread title. And it allowed people to declare their non-run training and their rest days.
    Velociraptor
    6:11pm, 14th Oct 2019
  • I see.
    DocM
    6:38pm, 14th Oct 2019
  • Whaaat ? No Furman?! ;-) I did boing it earlier. :-) G
    HappyG(rrr)
    9:24pm, 14th Oct 2019
  • Here's link Fetch, just so you don't have to guddle for it! fetcheveryone.com/viewtopic.php?id=39828 :-) G
    HappyG(rrr)
    8:33am, 15th Oct 2019
  • As Howfar said, needs a pin for “this is really useful advice”. Could show a synopsis of the thread with a link on each to take you to that part of the thread. It’s probably already a feature request.

    Where’s the “I just want to get round a marathon and I’m not fussed about the time” thread? Etc.
    Nightjar
    8:51am, 15th Oct 2019
  • Could there be training forum sub-categories for different standard race distances with the time target threads stickied at the top?
    Velociraptor
    8:53am, 15th Oct 2019
  • Thank you! :-) G
    HappyG(rrr)
    2:18pm, 15th Oct 2019
  • Is there a Hanson Marathon Method thread at all? If not I might be happy to create one!
    MovingAlong
    12:50pm, 16th Oct 2019


Benny Neutrino Returns

2:22pm, 11 Oct 2019
Just calling it that so you know which blog I'm referring to from t'other day.

I've made the server re-process all the training entries that produced sub-60-second-miles, to see whether the current algorithm does better at filtering out the crap. There were over 8000 runs to process.

I'm pleased to say that only 1 out of 8000+ managed to get through the net, producing a mile time of 47 seconds (which is relatively pedestrian compared to 0.25 seconds!). I haven't looked at why it did - but it looks fairly extreme. It looks like someone didn't reset their watch in between two runs that were about a hundred miles apart :-)

Now that I'm happy with that, it's currently reprocessing absolutely everything from 2009. When that's done (hopefully by the end of today), and if things are still ok, I'll push 2010-2014 inclusive through the mincer.

On another note... checkpoints. These are the automatically generated points on your routes that you can try to get faster at. I'd be interested to get your views in the comments on whether you pay them any attention; and how you might improve them given the chance. There are some checkpoint-related feature requests - give them a vote here whilst you're at it: fetcheveryone.com/featurerequests.php?sort=id&keyword=checkpoint

Bing bong.
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Comments

  • No, they seem completely random and rarely give any useful comparisons. For example, I generally seem to pass between two points via completely different routes which makes the times meaningless.
    Diogenes
    2:39pm, 11th Oct 2019
  • I agree with Diogenes. Sorry to say but the strava segments work better, although I've also largely ignored them for years.
    Sigh
    2:42pm, 11th Oct 2019
  • Ditto. Although I do refer to the strava segments when competing with friends.
    3M
    2:57pm, 11th Oct 2019
  • Agree with all previous posters.
    LindsD
    3:04pm, 11th Oct 2019
  • As do I :-)
    fetcheveryone
    3:35pm, 11th Oct 2019
  • There are some local to me that I do note my times on, but I don't use them to compete. It's all random - whereas Conquersize I would use to route plan.
    Autumnleaves
    3:37pm, 11th Oct 2019
  • I have used them in the past and probably will in the future but to a fairly small extent. Where I live I have some standard routes and it's pretty hard to join 2 checkpoints with other routes without really trying. So I used them to see that I was improving when I came back from injury. Occasionally I would even target a pair to see if I could get my best time for it. I've never used strava so wouldn't know what I was comparing it with *polishes halo*
    Elsie Too
    3:45pm, 11th Oct 2019
  • I got three checkpoints notifications today. I notice that the markers have changed to dots marked "A" and "B". Might need a tweak, as all my routings were the wrong direction.
    Dvorak
    6:34pm, 11th Oct 2019
  • I quite like them. They’re a bit of fun. Usually RunHammyRun is at the top of the list 😀
    Nightjar
    10:12pm, 12th Oct 2019


Cricket Week 3: Wingardium Leviosa!

10:44am, 10 Oct 2019
Ok, so I'll keep writing the cricket nets blogs for as long as there's something to talk about :-)

We got five people on Tuesday, but one of them was a new one - so if the ones that couldn't make it this time come back, then we're getting there.

I'm really enjoying the bowling at the moment - much more than the batting. This may be largely down to the fact that I keep damaging bits of myself whilst batting. With bowling, it's (ideally) the same rhythmic action each and every time. With batting, there's the impact of ball on bat, or (often worse) the swing and miss that leaves you without that opposing force to neutralise your energy. It's the batting that has stirred up my neck and shoulders - I'm pretty sure of that. I'm still doing ok though. It's week three, and I got bowled for the first time in about 70 minutes of batting. And I'm claiming mitigating circumstances, because the bowler farted loudly just before he let the ball go :-) :-)

On to the bowling. I'm still bowling plenty of trash, but having purple patches where I'm landing it in the right spot.

The type of bowling I do is called leg spin. It means that from a right-handed bowlers point of view, when the ball lands, it veers ('breaks') sharply to the left.

If you imagine throwing or bowling a ball, the 'neutral' hand position is for your palm and fingers to be right behind it as you let it go. Like picture number 1. This doesn't impart any sideways spin on the ball.



When I bowl a ball, my natural not-really-thinking-about-it hand position is more like picture 2. My hand slides to the left of the ball, and my fingers roll over the top of it - so that the ball is spinning in the direction shown by the seam. This is a standard leg break.

Because of this weird hand position, it's sometimes difficult to land the ball on the right spot. The ball can loop high in the air, or can come charging down towards the pitch - easy for the batter to clatter away.

There are some variations that a leg spinner can produce just by altering the angle of their wrist. Picture 3 shows a top spinner. The back of the hand is pointing forwards, and so instead of spinning the ball from right to left, it drops more quickly, and can bounce higher.

Picture 4 shows a wrong'un aka googly. The wrist is bent further round, so that the back of the hand is pointed towards the batter, and the spin on the ball means that it spins from left to right. This can *really* mess with your head if you're batting.

So my regular ball is number 2 - and I've never felt like I've been able to bowl number 3 or number 4.

What I *have* noticed this week, is that when I've tried to put more revolutions on my leg break, it's actually spun less - to the point that it seems to be travelling straight. The lovely realisation is that because my *natural* hand position tends to produce a leg break, those balls where I am putting in extra effort to spin the ball are *perhaps* turning into top spinners. And (totally not on purpose), I actually bowled a very mild wrong'un on Tuesday - which I am *still* disproportionately excited about.

I described it to Katie as turning up to charms class, and realising that you've just done Wingardium Leviosa - but that you're not quite sure how you did it.

The adventure continues :-)
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Comments

  • Excellent. Looking at the pictures I was going to say bowl top spinners with added leg spin. Then when you said it just went straight, you may well have bowled a Shane Warne-like mystery ball, a slider. There is a very good you tube vid of him explaining variations.
    Ocelot Spleens
    10:51am, 10th Oct 2019
  • I’ve seen that video I think. I could watch him bowl all day.
    fetcheveryone
    10:53am, 10th Oct 2019
  • You are hairy. Like animal.
    KatieB
    11:09am, 10th Oct 2019
  • Rude KatieB!
    Diogenes
    11:17am, 10th Oct 2019
  • Wingardium Leviosa would be very useful if you aimed it at the bails.
    Chrisity
    11:39am, 10th Oct 2019
  • Often wondered what the purple patches on the pitch were for.
    Nightjar
    12:27pm, 10th Oct 2019
  • Had many a happy hour playing cricket when I was a lad. Not in a team - a gang of us would find the nearest patch of grass and throw some wickets up. Then take it in turns bowling, batting & fielding pretending to be whichever England player took our fancy. Sadly left playing cricket behind when adulthood came around. Lovely memories though 🏏😀.
    Stevewjj
    1:25pm, 10th Oct 2019
  • My lad was a leg spinner in his early days as a cricketer, control was an issue, but every now and then he would produce an unplayable delivery and it all seemed worth it.
    kev-eats-owt
    2:01pm, 10th Oct 2019
  • It really is Kev - it's a great feeling.
    fetcheveryone
    2:02pm, 10th Oct 2019
  • Omg I got all excited for a minute thinking it was a chewie photo
    runnerbean
    3:19pm, 10th Oct 2019
  • Not played for years. I remember as a kid we had a big game at the park behind my house. Would have been around 20 of us. My Dad even got out the lawnmower to mow a wicket! Was good fun.
    Daz Love
    7:34pm, 10th Oct 2019
  • Whilst batting it might be worth thinking about letting the ball come to you rather than trying to hit at it, this can help balance and control, reducing the stresses you mention.
    Goofee
    8:29am, 11th Oct 2019
  • That’s good advice Goofee, thank you.
    fetcheveryone
    4:37pm, 12th Oct 2019


Benny Neutrino's Filter Tips

3:50pm, 8 Oct 2019
GPS Benchmarks...

Every time you log a run*, the benchmarks code looks through every centimetre of your route, and pulls out the fastest sections of it. In a ten mile run of near-total drudgery, you might have a really excellent kilometre, where everything feels absolutely perfect and you run* like Sarah Connor in Terminator 2. Not Terminator 1, but Terminator 2, where she's all hench. Proper pointy fingers on your hands. Face like steel. That.

For every run*, you'll see a set of benchmarks that represent everything from your best 400m, right up to your best marathon time. Clearly, if your run* is shorter than a marathon, it won't give you a marathon benchmark. But please say you're up to speed with this bit now, so I can get on with the rest of this blog.

Good, thank you :-)

The problem is, that sometimes your GPS will throw a Benny, and transport you three streets away. You break all manner of land speed records, and the whole concept of benchmarks becomes murkier than the deep end of a council swimming pool.

Here's my watch flipping out at Gunnersbury parkrun:
fetcheveryone.com/t-13372113

and here's another one where my GPS thinks I am some sort of neutrino:
fetcheveryone.com/t-7312711

Benny Neutrino. That'd be my rockstar name.

The key then, is to capture these moments where the GPS goes off on one. It's a constant process of discovering new ways in which it can f-up, and working out the best way to correct that data. And how to do so as early as possible, so that the multitude of tools and games in which your GPS data gets used are not exposed to crap.

There are 2.8 million one mile benchmarks in the Fetch database. And amongst those, there are 38,526 instances where folks have broken the four minute mile!

Some of these can be attributed to bike rides accidentally classified as runs - but there are 14,920 cases where folks have broken the ONE minute mile. The crapspeed record for the mile is held by Fetchie Robert Townsend in a fabulous 0.251957 seconds :-) And the womens' crapspeed record is not that sluggish either, with Sushi. completing a mile in 0.295518 seconds.

The good news is that most of the worst errors are old ones. Over the years, I've been able to catch some of the more obvious errors; and GPS tech has improved too. But it's still nice to have consistent data, and some of us have been here since 2004 :-) Here's the number of sub-one minute miles, broken down by year:

2008 = 0 one minute miles (we didn't record GPS data until some time in 2009)
2009 = 851
2010 = 2392
2011 = 3975
2012 = 4894
2013 = 2799
2014 = 7
2015 = 2
2016 = 0
2017 = 0
2018 = 0
2019 = 0

I'm going to push all of these training runs back through our benchmark calculator, to see if it will be smart enough to eliminate all the bogus numbers. And anything that's still looking bad can be studied like a cockroach that's survived a nuclear blast :-)

That'll take a while to process. More news soon.

*or ride, swim, walk or Geoffreying, or whatever the crazy kids are calling it these days. You know what I mean, right?
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Comments

  • Excellent data curating. Top work. Data WILL be cleansed. :-) G
    HappyG(rrr)
    3:53pm, 8th Oct 2019
  • Nice work!

    (Takes me back to VLM 2011, when my GPS track took me from Upper Thames Street across Blackfriars Bridge and back before returning me to the Victoria Embankment, rather than the more conventional route through the underpass.)
    ♪♫ Synge ♪♫
    4:04pm, 8th Oct 2019
  • It's pretty rare for anyone to pick up a marathon benchmark at London. Notwithstanding the fact that 26.2 miles is a long way to run without a GPS missing at least one beat, all those big buildings and tunnels play havoc.
    fetcheveryone
    4:06pm, 8th Oct 2019
  • You're shaking the caravan, Geoffrey.
    Raetomic Kitten
    4:08pm, 8th Oct 2019
  • I had some weird ones in NYC back in March.
    Autumnleaves
    4:10pm, 8th Oct 2019
  • Bens & Geoffereys??? Do Amazon need you to do something with ice cream now?
    flanker
    4:14pm, 8th Oct 2019
  • So if you achieve perfection with zero sub minute miles, should you also shove every run back through?
    Nightjar
    5:28pm, 8th Oct 2019
  • Potentially everything 2014 and earlier.
    fetcheveryone
    5:29pm, 8th Oct 2019
  • My best ever recorded lap on my Garmin was 26688 miles in 0.11 seconds - about 4 microseconds per mile, or roughly 1.3 x lightspeed. Somewhat inconsistent with my other PBs, not to mention special relativity...
    Silent Runner
    6:49pm, 8th Oct 2019
  • I was very proud of my (Garmin certified) 1km PB of 1:36 until I saw some of these times!
    Pothunter
    8:38pm, 8th Oct 2019
  • To be fair when I log runs manually I often fuck it up too :)
    fleecy
    3:31pm, 9th Oct 2019
  • I've only just seen this.

    That's a genuine mile. 🤪🤣🤣
    I had no idea I'd managed to record this!!!!!
    Sushi
    7:20am, 1st Nov 2019


Cricket Week 2

5:16pm, 2 Oct 2019
Don't worry. I'm not going to blog about every net session.

I was a bit nervous going in to last night's nets - mainly because my neck had been painful for the whole week. I'd done something to it whilst batting.

Thankfully, Katie had worked some amazing magic on it, and I had a wider range of movement.

We got a little increase in numbers - seven players turned up. We just need a few more to turn up each week now, and we'll be ok.

My bowling was a *little bit* better. Certainly I felt better about it. The line is getting better - I didn't put too many into the side netting. The length was still a bit of an issue - dragging quite a few short, and overpitching too. But when they were landing, I was getting some decent spin. The middle finger on my bowling hand is crucial. If I feel the ball fizz as it leaves that finger, I know it'll be a decent ball.

One of the guys who came yesterday evening has played first class cricket. When he batted, he seemed to have so much time - and when he played his strokes, his hands and feet seemed to move incredibly quickly. We each got fifteen minutes of batting - and my sole victory whilst bowling to him was getting him to leave one :-)

Batting went ok. I was a bit tighter perhaps, because my neck was (literally and metaphorically) at the back of my mind. But one of the bowlers had a very shiny new ball, and was getting some bend - so it was a tougher test.

Fun :-)
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Comments

  • Glad you got more numbers and that Katie worked some magic :)
    Corrah
    5:48pm, 2nd Oct 2019
  • Cricket is 1 sport I wish i had played more than just at school, i listen to tms religiously& get what your saying about bowling too short etc.
    meadowsboy
    6:01pm, 2nd Oct 2019
  • It’s always good watching an expert. I once played a round of golf with an ex-pro. Despite nursing a monster hangover he was still able to hit it dead straight without apparent effort.
    Pothunter
    6:44pm, 2nd Oct 2019
  • Wes Durston - ex-Derbyshire - plays in our league. Our bowlers reckon they can't get an lbw against him because the umpires enjoy watching him play so don't give him out :)
    ThorntonRunner
    7:44pm, 2nd Oct 2019
  • Sounds like real fun
    Diogenes
    8:04pm, 2nd Oct 2019
  • Muscle-memory is a wonderful thing...
    Angus Clydesdale
    12:29am, 3rd Oct 2019
  • No. Blog every single net.
    Ocelot Spleens
    9:02am, 3rd Oct 2019
  • Well done for doing a new (old) hobby. And for organising others too. But I haven't got much to say, cos it's cricket, innit?! Nothing against it, just never played, not terribly interested. Probably same as you feel about my 1/10th scale model car racing! fetcheveryone.com/viewtopic.php?id=60459 :-) G
    HappyG(rrr)
    10:37am, 3rd Oct 2019
  • I don't like cricket.

    I love it.
    Grid
    2:15pm, 3rd Oct 2019
  • I'm not against a blog about every net either!
    Goofee
    4:41pm, 3rd Oct 2019


Continuing Amazon Affiliate Saga

2:33pm, 1 Oct 2019
A couple of days ago, I blogged about the return of the Amazon link into the website footer. All seemed well - in the space of 2-3 days, it had earned in excess of a fiver. That might not seem a lot, but an extra £50-£100 per month can make the difference.

Anyway... I got an automated email today saying "We’ve now reviewed your application to the Associates Program. Unfortunately, it did not meet our program requirements. As a result, we have closed the account under which you had been temporarily approved. Why? We noticed that you are not using tags associated with your store ID in any of the Amazon Special Links you have created on your Site As a result of this, we were unable to determine the source of traffic. This is in violation of our Program Policies..." zzzzz.

Despite me using one of the recommended cut-and-paste snippets from the Amazon website, and despite the fact that it was clearly generating clicks and revenue, they pulled the plug. It sounds like something is broken with the way they assess sites.

I am undeterred. I have signed up again, and this time, I have added a product link to the footer. It's the lovely Fitbit Charge 3 that our Member of the Month nominees are in with a chance of winning. It's definitely there, right?

Let's see what happens. Thanks to everyone that's made a purchase so far :-)
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Comments

  • :-O
    (Glad I got in quickly with a small purchase yesterday.)
    Velociraptor
    2:41pm, 1st Oct 2019
  • There's lots of stuff about this online. The overriding message seems to be that there's no understanding why you get rejected, no appeal, you just have to keep trying.
    Diogenes
    3:21pm, 1st Oct 2019
  • Definitely there and, for now, links though to Amazon. Bots - I blame the bots. Idiot bots.
    Angus Clydesdale
    3:22pm, 1st Oct 2019
  • Might be worth looking at point 4 in this theartistsjd.com suggests you need to have a certain statement in your terms or privacy policy (which I couldn't see (never read those before :-) ))
    Diogenes
    3:37pm, 1st Oct 2019
  • That's a good summary Dio.
    Ian - I assume you have read this page affiliate-program.amazon.co.uk

    It suggests (maybe) you should link to (eg) Sports & Fitness, or Shoes, or some category to maximise revenue?

    Let us know if you want any help researching ...
    um
    3:44pm, 1st Oct 2019
  • Don't need to buy anything at the moment (I know, it's never stopped me before.....) but I clicked both the links in the hope that Amazon thinks it's real traffic. :)
    Nessie
    3:53pm, 1st Oct 2019
  • It sounds as if some human input night hep Amazon too.
    Helegant
    4:09pm, 1st Oct 2019
  • I got a bullsh*t email in response to my feedback. It said: "After an application has been rejected it can't be reinstated. If your website has been further developed and now contains unique and original content, please submit a new application and we'll be happy to review it."

    Clearly they have automated as much as possible, as I've seen this text shared in another forum. So like Dio says, I will just keep tinkering and trying.
    fetcheveryone
    4:16pm, 1st Oct 2019
  • Any help With the tagging. Looks like they want you to sell specific products but if we buy something in the same category then that also counts as a direct qualifying sale? Perhaps we could start a “Which xyz is best?” thread and after everyone has pitched in you could put a link to it on Amazon.
    Nightjar
    5:31pm, 1st Oct 2019
  • Should have read I can’t help with the tagging.
    Nightjar
    5:33pm, 1st Oct 2019
  • The Fitbit charge 3 is a good shout
    Serendippily
    6:13pm, 4th Oct 2019


In case you haven't seen...

2:12pm, 1 Oct 2019
This Saturday is the Doctor K Cup!

Here's what you have to do:

1) Add the following virtual race to your portfolio:
fetcheveryone.com/viewracedetails.php?id=3560577

2) Make sure you enter your predicted time for 5k, and do so before 8am on 5th October.

3) Pick a local parkrun where you can make your attempt. Fmail Joopsy with your real name and which parkrun you are doing.

4) With a large dollop of honesty, run on October 5th, without a timing device, or pacer, etc. The person closest to the predicted time will receive the beautiful Doctor K Cup for one year.

There's also a chat thread here:
fetcheveryone.com/viewtopic.php?id=60039

Last year we got 28 Fetchies taking part - so let's smash that this time round folks.
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Music by year: 1992 (plus some 1991 additions)
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February (17)
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Music by year: 1990
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Pass it on
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January
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Salmon Ramen (for TBR)
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Pick it...
People who liked...
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Jobs
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9 years ago today
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November (10)
The Festive Fetch Calendar is back!
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Mugs!
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Chess
UTMOST in the age of COVID-19
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In theory...
October (11)
Training Plan Analysis
Mini plans with the training plan
5k with The Boy :-)
Welcome to tomorrow
Thank you
Become tradeable!
Pre-Race Training Volume
Doctor K Cup Week
Last orders
Advice for a friend
Trader Makeover
September (6)
The shop is open!
Hoodie Colour!
New Fetch Hoodies
A big up/holler!
VO2max
A benchmark derailed by GPS data *nerd*
August (8)
10k analysis
Officially a Sheepy Shuffler!
Pi Watering
Pre-order Avoid Everyone Face Masks
I got sent these...
Other sites? :-O
Benchmarks - an infinitely configurable set of ladders.
Try the monthly infographic :-)
July (10)
Update on Monthly Training Infographic
New Infographic
Monthly Summary (with a little tweak)
A quick Garmin update
Open Water / Wild Swimming Database
Avoid Everyone - spares
OWS Locations
Thread-level search
New Sharing Graphic & New Pastures
My first lamp post
June (16)
Replacing the Who's Training page
Combining some pages
In pursuit of the Gridmaster Ultra
15th Anniversary Kit - Spares
Shoelaces
A new How To video
Training Plan Updated
Black Lives Matter
Avoid Everyone Spares + Second Batch
Wikipedia page
Another YouTube video for sharesies :-)
Getting data to Fetch from **other places**
Feature Voting - some further updates
Feature Voting - speeded up
Another How To video - this time, Conquercise
Fantastisches Tweeten
May (13)
A video for sharing
Bees!
Fetch Introductory Zoom Presentations
A promise to all Fetchies
Fetch Virtual Weekend: Replacement Bus Service
How has Fetch use changed?
Fetch Weekly Virtual Races
Zoom Meeting - Thursday 9 til 10am
WAVA Standards Update
WAVA Standards + Poll
Fun with Age Grading :-)
New Badges Day
The test shirt fabric has arrived :-)
April (14)
Zoom Podcast - watch the video
What is WBC?
If you did the free Amazon trial...
Some small amends (and shirt version)
Pre-orders open
I was only joking, but...
If Fetcheveryone did lockdown merch
Site outage - Thursday 16th April 11pm
On exercising responsibly
My Sports Quiz - how would you have scored?
Your creative thinking required
WBC My Favourite Teacher (a bit later than the deadline)
Updated Training League
Server Downtime, Thursday 9th 00:01BST to 04:00BST (and thank you!)
March (13)
New Fetch Game: Hide and Seek
Free trial of Audible
Do you have a good memory?
New Opt-In for Fetch Miles
New Badges for Fetch Miles
The Fetch Five: Don't Let CV19 Win!
Amending event dates and notifying of cancellations
A green light comes on over your head, and you can get on with life
Most Popular Shoe Brands 2019
A review
Android: Session I
Compare Your Training
Book Now to avoid disappointment :-)
February (10)
Imports from Suunto, Fitbit, Polar and TomTom.
Plot A Route - mobile improvements
Happy tugging!
Something to play with
Adding A New Feature
February Treasure Hunt
Server Downtime
Miles = Smiles
Build Your Mile
Pop Will Eat Himself: Update
January (11)
Clarence the Cadence Kitten
Trim your trails :-)
Seven Day Leaderboard
Let's try that again
Some minor blog amendments
Try the new Forum Search Prototype
Pop Will Eat Himself
A card from HowFar?
Thank you HowFar? (Statement, not a question)
Take the red pill
Climb every mountain
2019 (134)
December (7)
The Christmas Poem
Where your treasure is...
Listen to the dog breathe
Chewie, We're Home
Thursday's Challenge
Which GPS?
Fetch Shop (of sorts)
November (12)
The zeroth challenge
Polar users - auto import
Calling all Polar users
Mobile Optimisation
Calling all Android users
Did your ads disappear?
Pin that sucker down :-)
Easier tagging
Category now editable from VIEW
Kit now editable from VIEW
Working towards tagging
Manual Add Training bug
October (16)
Boring Cricket Blog
Books Part 2
Books :-)
42
Training tags Part 2
Training tags
Let's Jazzercise
My precious
Cricket Week 4: Footage :-)
Forum Training Threads
Benny Neutrino Returns
Cricket Week 3: Wingardium Leviosa!
Benny Neutrino's Filter Tips
Cricket Week 2
Continuing Amazon Affiliate Saga
In case you haven't seen...
September (11)
Updated: Spare Anniversary Kit
Affiliate links
I did a cricket!
Fetch365 - enjoy responsibly
Filth
My dear old things
Buddies vs Follow
Server Invoice Day
Our new MOTM sponsor
Fetch Power!
Race Listings: Please Read
August (5)
Everyone *rainbow*
Almost there...
Quick blog
Country Badges
A new set of badges
July (6)
Pre-orders open
Anniversary Shirts v2
Fetch 15th Anniversary Shirts
Fetch Fest 2020
Shout Outs
Missing imports from Garmin yesterday
June (13)
Who Squares Wins: 64 screenshot
Who Squares Wins: 64 Player Edition
Training summary - older pages
Training sub-menu rejig
Try the infographic
Steady Edina
Annual Summary Infographic
The height of daft things
The training summary - the morning session
The training summary - a wordier blog
Try the annual summary thing
How to listen to the Fetch Podcast
12 month summary mega-graph!
May (15)
£79.99 off the bottom line
Competition
parkrun reviews - now with routes
Fix It Friday; Project Joker Week 2; and some shout outs.
Fetch Kit Cupboard Sale
The bonus ball
Project Joker - Week 1
Fix It Friday
A quick update on the server
Fetch 15th Anniversary Kit
There is a good service operating
Oof.
In case you're wondering...
Trouble auto importing from Garmin?
Fix It Friday: Stuff that came to me in dreams
April (12)
Feature Voting - now with virtual badges :-)
The moment of triumph!
New Feature Voting
Fix It Friday: What would your horse be called?
Marathon Pacing: tyre-kickers required
Fix It Friday: Back to Basics
Podcast Poll
Fix It Friday: The League Of Everyone
Dom, dom, dom, I've got DOMS, I've got DOMS!
Crouch, Touch, Pause.... longer pause... what am I doing again?
Training Log - Update
Site Update: New Font
March (15)
Fix It Friday: An Endless Mission
Naming and faming :-)
2nd in my age category!
Fix It Friday: Brought to you by Surprise Inset Day
New training log
Route Matching - Ready :-)
Fix It Friday
What's your unit of measurement?
Ciderthon competition
Fix It Friday: Stroopwafels of Doom!
Route Matching - Update
This week's cool list
Me in the river
Big Fetch Miles 2019
Fix It Friday: Fingerprints!
February (13)
A Maths Challenge
Fetch Legends: Activate!
Whose coat is this jacket?
Fix It Friday: The Fix Awakens
Joining the awesome list...
Fix It Friday
Naming and faming :-)
Fix It Friday - Monthly Summary
Training Month Summary
Podcast Q&A
If you can't read this, don't panic.
*redsaber* The force is strong with these Fetchies!
Fix It Friday *bluesaber*
January (9)
Some shout outs :-)
Fix It Friday!
Podcast Ep 3, plus some naming and faming :-)
Fix It Friday
Fetch Chaos
Oooh! Second chance Berlin trip! And new subbers, podcast episode, and Trader.
My week of running
Naming and faming - this week :-)
Naming and faming :-)
2018 (138)
December (8)
A Christmas Message (in podcast form)
Rungeon :-)
Hey, Everyone!
France Trip Vote
Happy Fetch Independence Day
Actual free trip to France (incl. flights)
Litter
Sombrero's Lovely Cards
November (14)
Hoodies + other spares
Spare Fetch Kit
Festive Fetch Calendar 2018
Avatars
Book Giveaway - Can We Run With You, Grandfather?
Fix It Friday
Bedford Harriers Half - place offered
Updated Kit Bag
Family Fortunes :-)
Any adidas experts out there?
No Fixes Today - just two challenges
Big Fetch Mile Cardiff
Fix It Friday
Festive Fetch Calendar 2018
October (14)
Hello landlubbers
Embedded polls
Member of the Month
Fix It Friday
Spare Fetch shirts and vests
Abingdon
Fix It Friday
My Fetch Mile
One thing's for sure, we're all gonna be a lot thinner.
Fix It Friday - 'Ave It!
Automatic route matching
Automatic route matching
One last reminder for those cycling jerseys
Fix It Friday - Forensics and User Experience
September (14)
Fix It Friday
Server Downtime 2.30pm 26th September
Never Again
Fix It Friday!
Handling your weirdness
Cards ordered :-)
Just wondering...
Fix It Friday :-)
Try the Fetcheveryone Tutorial
40 days and 40 nights
Fix It Friday
ARION insoles - review part 1
Fetch Shirt - Black Ones, and sizing
Shirts and Vests Pre-Order
August (14)
Fix It Friday
Blog Height squished
Site Outage Last Night
New Mobile Nav
Fix It Friday
New feature - how you doin'? :-)
Sunflower spread
Fix It Friday
A new pre-race mileage graph
Fetch Social: Draycote Water September
Fix It Friday: The Supermarket Analogy
A run with _andy :-)
Suunto 9 Review
Fix it Friday
July (5)
Fix It Friday!
Five Get Wet In Devon
Big Glasgow Weekend - Part 1: Gies A Cwtch
Tom Williams Interview - Final Part
Glasgow Big Fetch Mile Results and Pics
June (17)
Abingdon Week 17 - P&D Booster rockets
Interviewing Tom Williams: Part III
Walking League (and one just for Nellers)
Follow Roads - continued
Week 18 in the bag
Tackling turds
Abingdon Marathon Training: Week 18
Interview with Tom Williams - Part 2
Server
Five Questions (ready for serious answers)
Kick some tyres for me
Interview with Tom Williams - Part 1
Five Questions
Follow Roads saga
Google maps progress, plus Abingdon plans
Training Summary - Infographics
Who Squares Wins - ranking update
May (10)
Training log maps converted
More mapping updates
Who Squares Wins - The Wizard's Hat
De doo doo doo... another one bites the dust...
Invisible changes
Silverstone 10k
Three year throwback
Why your support makes the difference
Some high mileage Fetchies
dryrobe winner
April (14)
Interviewing Tom Williams
Swimming Caps!
#finishformatt
New batch of shirts and vests
You make big mistake my friend
Fetchpoint
Glasgow Big Fetch Mile announced
Two tickets to the Running Awards
Pics from Dudley Big Fetch Mile
Notes for London Marathon Fetchpointers
Results from today's Big Fetch Mile
Who Squares Wins - prototype board
Attention London Marathoners!
New game - coming soon
March (9)
Intervals, Solidarity, Swimming and Fmail
Ready to give the new fmail a try?
More on fmail
New fmail system
Win a dryrobe :-)
For jabberknit...
Updating the Training Home page
Pics from Bedford Big Fetch Mile
Sledgends :-)
February (13)
Buffs On Sale
Big Fetch Mile Bedford
Vlog :-)
Marathon Talk
Important GDPR stuff - PLEASE read
A page of historical importance
Vlog :-)
Road Rash, Marathon Prediction and T-Shirts
This :-)
Capturing the dog
It's BACK!
Enter Wilmslow Half Marathon
An advertisement
January (6)
Local Fetchies - Opt In
Revealed: World's Best Shoes
How I chose the Big Fetch Mile venues
Big Fetch Mile 2018 - Venues & Provisional Dates
Try adding an image to your training entry
Mileage Targets 2018 - Update
2017 (147)
December (12)
Mileage Targets 2018
Thank you
Brownie Recipe :-)
Phew
Fetch Hoodies + Buffs SALE Update
Chewie, We're Home
Fetch Hoodies SALE - what's left
Fetch Hoodies! SALE!!! (and Buffs available too)
Chewie, We're Home
Sharing pics
Fetch Jingle Mile Cambridge photos
Glorious Failure: Bedford Harriers Half Marathon
November (20)
Serpents, hamstrings and inversions
A special anniversary approaches...
Hamstring and prototype updates
Training Log Prototype - Today's Improvements
Red Venom sale
For what it's worth...
Training Log Prototype - Update #2
Training Log Prototype - Update
Big Fetch Mile - venue hunt
RT for a Garmin
Training Log Prototype - To Be Fixed
fetcheveryone.com/amazon
The Weekly vLog (by me)
Thanks :-)
New Training Log Prototype - Available Now
Thanks for following
VLog - footage from the Cardiff Big Fetch Mile
Big Fetch Mile[s] 2018
Win a place in the Surrey Half
I vont to scan your barcode.
October (12)
Big Fetch Weekend :-)
Fetch Mile Results
Festive Fetch Calendar :-O
Calling Parkers everywhere!
In which I decorate a cake.
Regent's Park Fetchie Discount
Elevation in colour
"I didn't come here to walk to Sparta!"
New elevation info
Chicken Ballot-ine, with a side order of beef
New training log headers
Ballot day tomorrow - help needed
September (19)
Weekly vLog - COCONUTS!!!
River Thames Half Marathon
The lollipop update
On failing gracefully
Doctor K Day
Fetch Kit Sale - Updates
Weekly vLog
Fetch Kit Sale
Training Log View Update
Fetcheveryone Weekly? Vlog?
Fetchie Race Discount - Regent's Park 10k
Training Log Tags - Live
Training Log Tags
Weekly vLog - Derby Mile, and a pause to salute the legendary Doctor K
24 hours later
Doctor K donation page
Doctor K
Fetch Weekly vLog
Derby Mile - tomorrow!
August (8)
Race Prices; and an alien earworm
Straight outta Cromford - the Fetch Weekly vLog!
A Fetch vLog! With prizes!
Quick search location for sharing
New WAVA graph
Weird FIT file thing
Back from me 'olidays :-)
Linking race results to training log entries
July (12)
Race Pricing - crowdsourcing
Appdate for Android and iPhone
Inhalers
Fetch Mile - Cardiff?
Bookends
Race listing omelette
Coding and town planning
Please review your races
A2B winners
Motivational Sounds - the final 10
Two more Big Fetch Miles? :-)
Bedford Fetch Mile Results
June (19)
Big Fetch Mile
Motivational Sounds
Fetch fug - updated design
Fetch fug (available at the Fetch mile)
I've done the naughtiest thing ever.
Donating Blood - my Vlog
Fapp In the App Store :-)
Can I kick it?
A***biscuits
This just in...
For Bean
Your app status is Waiting For Review
A2B
Fetch Caps
Garmin Communicator Plugin
Fetch App - strong and stable testing
HTTPS is here
Fetch App progress
https access to the site
May (14)
Fetch App
Apostrophes
[Untitled]
[Untitled]
Site down at 11pm
Round and round the garden
Try the new home page layout
Server down tonight @ 11pm
Browser testers wanted
The Big Fetch Mile!!!
Site *NOT* down tonight. [cough]
Bluffer's Competition - Winner
Bedford parkrun timelapse
Return of the cap
April (8)
Fetchpoint (London and Milton Keynes!)
Base camp, VMLM
Bronze!
Just for D2
Off to the awards
Bloodvlog
Hoodies - it's on!
Updated Training Home Page
March (6)
'Train' page
Project Joker
Hoodies and Londons
Hands up, hands UP! Draycote Water 10
Bluffer's Competition
Project Joker
February (12)
Draggable?
Running Awards shortlisted
Route Plotter now with OpenStreetMap
Plan for Bluffer's comp
Update to Route Plotter
First update to the route mapper
For Angus
Virtuous Circles
Competition coming soon
Race Guide Ads
Club La Santa vLog
Fetch Fixtures
January (5)
Word Clouds
Buckets Ready
New Home Page
Do me a favour...
Limited Companies, filing accounts, that sort of thing
2016 (128)
December (11)
Festive Fetch Calendar - Winners
Festive Fetch Calendar - Winners
Five Years Ago Today
Pantsfest! May the stains be ever in your favour!
#FEXIT
Photoshop SOS
Attention: Fitbit users
Bedford Half 2016
Luton Fetchmob: Breaking Point
Vote Fetch!
Breaking news: Paris Marathon
November (21)
How to end a LiveChat.
Define wrong
TomTom Runner 3 Review - Any Questions?
Deliveryman
Movember: Project Beard: Day 24: Beardraggled
Festive Fetch Calendar 2016
We're gonna be in the Hudson
Hey Chiefy
I've written summat
Going Postal
A special mention
Training Log Beta
Spare Hoodies
Updates to Training Beta
Movember: Project Beard - Day 8 (The Seven Day Itch)
Vote for Fetch
Training Log Detail View - Some Changes
Aberdeen University Study
Consultation V2
[Untitled]
Fetchpoint - October Winners and November Prizes
October (16)
Alien nuggets!
Keeping a tight lid on the biscuit tin
Training Log Beta
100 Running Words
Pssst....
Fetchmob, December 3rd
Where to mob?
Little things
That All-Time Mileage League
The sudoku that keeps on giving.
Sub-25 for 1km :-)
Fetchmob - December 3rd
New Training Log Preview
Fixed the overlap...
Why the new training log isn't ready yet...
vLog
September (12)
Doughnut or Donate
Training Log - Sneak Peek
Fetch Shop Sale! Old stuff clearout!
vLog!!!
The consultation system...
Garmin support for timezone info
The GMT/BST/Timezone problem
Training Log Consultation...
Training Log - Consultation
Fetch Social Runs
Subscriber shirts, vests and hoodies, and determination.
Fetch Voluntary Subscriptions
August (3)
Ze Gryndylows! My first #OWS :-)
Testing Fetchpoint exclusion zones
Fetchpoint scoring system
July (7)
Conquercise Prize Draw?
Fetch Games: Checkpoints (and what's wrong with them)
More owls...
Your Favourite Fetch Game?
Even More Utmost Than Before...
Chiswick!
15 days later...
June (10)
Five days on...
[Untitled]
A quick thank you...
What do you think?
If you'd be so kind...
Poised
Which watch?
Run Bedford 10k
Import from a TomTom
Attention TomTom users
May (10)
Race Distance poll
An ungainly fish
A five year plan
What Club La Santa can learn from parkrun
Cream Me Up, Scotty
Greetings from Club La Santa
And a quick poll...
Club Charter
A poll about intervals
More owls!
April (11)
Robin Hood and his Merry Dad :-)
Warning: Dull - some screen res stats
Responsive Design Update
For all you marathoners
A Poll
Fetchpoint
Ditching the forum categories?
Moving to Responsive Design
Sandy 10: Be Kind To Horses
Owls!
For Adam and Jamie
March (11)
Bacon Smoke!
Benchmarks Update
Bath - Race Report
PB!!!!!!!
An annoying eight-year-old.
Let's Cook and Cut and Paste :-)
Let's Cook :-)
RIP Gramma
Book Winners
Dog farming
Site header update
February (5)
Book Giveaway
Pi Club
Pi Project Update
Because I'd like to check the blogging badges are working...
Crapruary
January (11)
Snooker Freak
Badges - Another Update
Unlockable Badges - Update
Unlockable Badges
TomTom Runner 2 Review
Gallery updates
Snowball coding and Fetch Unlockables!
Achievement Medals - what do you reckon?
Run The Sum
2015 Book List (and a bit of a review / plan)
Festive Fetch Calendar - Winners
2015 (175)
December (7)
Red Red Wine
A Poll
Gis a job!
Bedford Half
REMEMBER!!!
Vote for Fetch
Now you've hopefully got the idea...
November (13)
The Festive Fetch Calendar
Don't get excited or anything...
Slightly Dismal Friday
Pre-order your Fetch Buff now :-)
A message from our sponsor
Dr Fetch will see you now
Only the grumbliest, achiest chocolate... :-)
The Stanford Experiment
Buff Design
Snugs - Review
Love, Commitment, Support
The pre-wedding blog!
Good morning Fetchers, good morning Everyone
October (9)
Monthly Totals
Did you write a blog yesterday?
The First Rule of Web Server Maintenance
The gain line
Fectch
The zipper challenge!
Sugar daddy
Now in colour!
Competition Time!!!
September (14)
Teach your kids (or yourself) to code
Sticky Training Choices
Goodies: GetMore water and the Alcatel OneTouch Watch
Shirt size guidelines
This nearly made it...
Subscriber Shirt Design
I've got wood!
Humbled
New Beginnings
Some more questions answered
Swimming
Some responses to your comments
Standing on the shoulders of Fetchies
Funtleks
August (8)
24 hours in the south
24 hours in the north
Fetchies Assemble!
Thank you
Better knowledge than riches
Fitbit Urge
The villainous Mr Fetch!
Uncomfortable rear
July (8)
Why don't you play Conquercise?
Another week of strange training
Book Giveaway - Winners
GPS Reviews
Criteria for reviewing a GPS
Auto-bike-detector :-)
Win some bookses :-)
Half Way!
June (13)
Time Lapse Clouds
TomTom Bandit - very QUICK first impressions
My wings are like a shield of steel!
Running plus Cycling update
Embarrassingly...
Stalkers Paradise!
Recommend me a bike :-)
Holy Steamrollers Batman!
Rest day (no such thing)
Sqveeeeze!
We will now imitate the flight of a goose :-)
You made me ink! Snorkel safari :-)
Good morning from CLS :-)
May (10)
Club La Santa :-)
The AWESOME Power of Fetchies!
Home Insurance Shaftage :-/
Editing Forum Posts
The Future!
Some London Marathon stats
Walking On The Moon
Hardest parkrun?
New found wisdom
Week 1
April (11)
Marathon vLog
I owe some hugs!
And that concludes the voting from the Danish judges
Adventures in geocaching
Your video clips wanted!
Jelly with no spoons
Random Ultra
Suncream in my eyes - a review of 'Running and Stuff'
Books what I've read this year
Measuring the effect of wind
Wind Roses
March (18)
Watching the tide roll away
A great week of running!
Happy Jigs Wisdom!
Mobile Fetch
I don't do this very often...
Breathless Optimism
20 miles yesterday
This Week's vLog
Decision Trees and the sub-4!
Democracy Street
Mayan Maths
Bath Half (at last)
Still a chicken
Costume Drama in Bath
TomTom importing
Updated 'Train' page
Zonked
Nearly
February (29)
Pheasant
An Unexpected Journey
Wind picking up...
An unplanned kit alarm
Race Pace Test
2nd place
Week ends
Bounceback
Barking carrots
Bedroom pizza
Top of the mountain
Blogs get the mobile treatment
Supersonic Katie, and a marathon pace question
Back home
Racing parkrun ;-)
Unblocking the sink
Start in Darkness
Some times I'd like
Mobile Site - Forum Section
All-Time Leaderboards
Batteries
Sword fighting
PB Attempts
Duct tape and WD40
Big Elephants Can Always Understand Small Elephants
Lessons
Shoe horning
Training vLog Week 13
Big February Project
January (35)
Cake, invalidated
Small sips
LiRF, award shortlist, beginners, books, boy.
Dog Available :-)
Cutback
New Recipe Section
Lazy
Another threshold run
New Beginnings
Blah
But far more importantly...
Fetch Beginners Programme
Give it a go :-)
Training vLog - Week 11
Threshold Run (a running blog)
Long day, short blog
(Lack of) Pump Action
A thread to follow
This Boy Can
Local Leaderboards for Checkpoints
Choking.
February 18th
Godzilla!
The Travelling Checkpoint Salesman
Acorn Antiques
Bearing Up
Deleted Bridges and Dodgy Lasers
I'm Batman!
Healthy and Appy
Punch O'Clock!
The plan, then.
Ten mile toes
On Parliament
[Untitled]
Bold Claims, and a Challenge for 2015
2014 (262)
December (9)
A trip to Wales (vLog)
Christmas Messages from Fetchies
Various
FERC London Marathon Places - Draw
It's gone in my sock...
Festive Fetch Five
This Week's Training
To the Post Office!
Training vLog - Week 4
November (12)
I Am Groot!
Slightly Dismal Friday
Week 3 - in which I nearly drown my wife!
I said yes :-)
Free Daps! aka Test GORE-TEX® footwear this winter!
Training vLog - Week 2
More chances for VMLM entries
Marathon Talk
My first training vLog :-)
Second place?
In :-)
Questionnaire about personality traits amongst runners
October (16)
Adidas API
Horseplay minimiser
Running with the big dog
Flat and Windy
Who'd like to test the Garmin API then?
Advantage Borg
Deal?
Jumble
Milk Tray Reps in the Rain
Geneva
Quote
Hatfield 5k, and some other running thoughts
Site layout changes
Vote for Training Plans
Maths help
3-2-1
September (8)
A quick device poll
Garmin Connect API
Cake at the lake :-)
Empowering Women
This Week's Training
Tick :-)
Article help
First outing with the Harriets
August (7)
Book club and Harriers
A treasure trove for bookish types
What I did on my Summer Holidays
Local decoration
The Fisher King
Mojitos and no mosquitos!
Cake-athlon
July (26)
James Mason
Missing Week
Camping View
Wild Camping
Quick
Transalpine Race
In brief
Urgent! Pair of runners wanted!
Fetch Kit Available to Pre-order :-)
Fetch Anniversary Kit - Preview
API and FAK!
That dog has a puffy tail
More books
Reverse Moses
Zombies vs Plants
Shovel required
Nightfever
Dayfever
Catcher in the Rye
My sister the psychologist
Drink your strong limey drink
Keep me in the loop
Bread knives, hedgehogs and the dog in the night time
Whoops
Pinteresting
Q&A?
June (34)
Checkpoints video
Walden
Happy boys and giggly imps
Spring loaded
Elbow grease
Fetch 10th Anniversary Kit
Fetch YouTube Tutorial - Race Guide
Finding the Library folder on a Mac
Stoat!
Sonic screwdriver
Live wires
Wiring help needed
Garmin Express Experiment
Scalded sloth
Garminge
Potching
New Forum Layout
Further updates to the blog layout
New blog layout
First woodpecker
Beastin' parkrun
Pantoball
All was well
USA! USA! USA!
Marking Territory
The People's Poet Is Dead :-(
Holy Water
Throwing shapes
Life moves pretty fast
Recursion is beautiful
Win an OS Explorer / Landranger map of your choice
Intervals with a Suunto Ambit 2S
Tick
Economy done two ways
May (31)
[Untitled]
Vorsprung Durch Lego Technic
How do I liberate my boy from his XBox?
Questions?
Life in the Woods
Lazy
MovesMissed
Intervals with a TomTom
Electioneering
[Untitled]
Tree fluff
More camping
Zen and Camping
Not eaten by bears
Bear food
Camping List
Camping Venn Diagrams
Floppy dog
Routes but not Rathbone
Illustrator wanted
Masking
Highlights
The Cosmic Ballet Goes On
Silverstone 10k :-)
Quick one
[Untitled]
Superhuman snooker
Dogturdflagman
Numbers!
Whittlin'
Chapter 1
April (29)
King Bin
Quiet day on Feedback Mountain
Listing
42
Go directly to parkrun. Do not pass Godzuki.
A day in Wales
[Untitled]
Spanner
The Lost Diadem of Fetchbook
Falling asleep in my dinner
Egg
Sofathon
God gave rock and roll to you.
Sugar Mule
Not bad, consid'rin.
Tinkering
Can U Dig It?
A weekend in Wales
Looking forward to Oliver!
Thank you, and more App talk
RIP Nan
Blah
Appy
Pyjamas at both ends.
Thump. Saturday has started.
Sore tum :-/
Zombies aside... first impressions of the new TomTom
TomTom Runner Cardio Press Event
Am I pregnant?
March (31)
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Sport Relief Win
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Toton Sidings
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Owen Farrell visualisation technique
Kebabs!
Booster fails to ignite
Myton Rugby Run (5 Miler)
Rugby before rugby
Sweetcorn antidote
Custard factory
Pooped
I did some intervals :-)
Speed work?
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Minty
Rainbow's End
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February (28)
Made it to Bath
Unexpected hugs
Slider
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Because We're Worth It
I don't know what!
Thanks Jim
Enough now
Clearing the pipes
Crouch, Touch, Pause...
Medication, that's what you need.
Symptom Tour
Hello FBI
Dazed day
Why I'm an optimist
Mobius birds
Snotty knuckles
In this house...
Retch Everyone
Carrots
Where your treasure is, there your heart will be also
Ultrahalfmarathoner
Angry Birds
Belching
Clarkson averse
Good day :-)
January (31)
*bunting* *cake*
Bigger Boys
Zombies!
Pretending to be Saga Norén
Waiting for the AA
Ship shape
Readthrough
Technology takes you further
Love Garden
Cushions
High Heel Striker
Bit of a rubbish one
Ta
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An august prediction
Some Running Goals for Q1
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Snakes and Ladders
Bigger Ponds
Drink Your Weak Lemon Drink
All in All
Panning the pancake
Does JK Rowling own a dog?
Back to the kitchen table
Steve Davis shoes
Pigs on a water slide
Sloshing
Protocol
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December (3)
Oh...
Engine Management Light
Hannibal Vector
November (3)
Speed skating
Stew-pendous
Cool Hand Grandpa
October (3)
Bookish
Minecraft Cake
Random dump
September (2)
Blog by Email!
Catchup blah
August (3)
Big Green Caterpillar
Questions answered - final CLS blog
Last Days at Club La Santa
July (10)
A nice morning of swimming and tennis
Please Read: Questions for a sports coach
Snorkeltastic
Hitting the straps
First Impressions at Club La Santa
Mile High Blog
Clocking off
For the second week running...
Another Club La Santa catchup
The Floor In The Plan
June (3)
Club La Santa
Bulk Uploading, and win a book
FERC Charities 2011-2012
March (1)
Bath Weekend
January (1)
Meet Steve
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Tired Now Boss
Bath - Week 14 + Foodbank
November (3)
White Level Reading
Bath - Week 15
Bath - Week 16
October (2)
Onwards!
C'mon Dave
July (1)
RIP Arnie
June (2)
Rub some bacon on it
18 weeks
May (9)
Techy not tetchy
Time for a techy blog
Time to walk the dog
Stevington 12k
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New blog design live
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April (2)
Easter
SERIOUSLY LORD FETCH, SORT IT OUT
March (8)
A long run up
Running Tick
Weekend
Sport Relief Mile
Back once again
Swimming sweetcorn and other vegetables
Joy Rides, Sticks and Medals
Training Tip
February (9)
And...
Katie, ICT, and some more MySQL
May The Ground Force Be With You
Functions
Well done Batman.
Optimisation Crossword
Snow Days
Gallery, and parkrun
Pleased
January (1)
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